The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Hugh Walpole-Volume 3: One Novel 'Portrait of a Man with Red Hair' and Fifteen Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual Including 'The Clocks', 'The Silver Mask', 'Major Wilbrahim', 'Field with Five Trees' a

The final volume of the collected strange fiction of a literary master

Sir Hugh Walpole was one of the most popular and prolific British authors of the first half of the 20th century. After the publication of his first novel, 'The Wooden Horse', in 1909 he produced one significant work each year including the acclaimed 'Herries' series. Born in New Zealand in 1884, the son of an Anglican clergyman, Walpole was committed to becoming a writer and encouraged in his ambition by Henry James and ...